Process Manufacturing Guide

Engineering Manufacturing Process

A classical engineering manufacturing process has many activities and sub-processes contributing to it. The Engineering process also known as Production Engineering process, is extremely important for the production of goods. The Production Engineering process makes extremely significant optimizations to the manufacturing process. Every business owner analyzing the engineering manufacturing process must pay careful attention to the goals and process definition documents.

What are the goals of an Engineering Manufacturing Process?

Product Produce-ability - This is the capacity of the production unit or the process to produce goods. In most cases, business owners would have this capacity measured as an indicator of how much they can produce in a desired timeline. The goal of an engineering manufacturing process is to ensure that the Product Produce-ability is optimum so to ensure that all the resources in the production process are used effectively.
Product Quality - When a customer receives a product on time, he is satisfied. He will be satisfied completely only if he receives a product which meets his quality expectations. The goal of the engineering process is to ensure that the product quality is optimum. Ideally, business owners expect their production processes to clock at a quality level of 100%. In a practical scenario, even with a Six Sigma standard applied to a production process the company can expect to roll a quality score of 99.9998%. Most manufacturing companies aim at achieving this accuracy level consistently.
Product Cost - Product cost keeps the manufacturing company surviving from both the ends of the supply chain. It is one factor which impacts the customers and the suppliers almost equally.

Let us take an example. For customers to buy Brand A of a product, they had to pay a price of $5. The manufacturing cost of this brand A was $4 in the company. All inclusive, the company could make a profit of $1 per sale of brand A. If the manufacturing cost of the company has risen to $6 per unit of brand A due to some uncontrollable factors, it would have to increase the selling price of brand A to $7 to maintain its profitability. In such an event, the customer base of the brand A may go down due to the increased price of the product.

Thus business owners strive to ensure that product costs are optimum just so that the company is profitable and customers are satisfied as well.

Apart from the goals, documents like the Production Engineering Flowchart and Production Engineering Outline are extremely helpful in streamlining the engineering manufacturing process.

Remember, the three main objectives of an engineering manufacturing process is to optimize their production ability, product quality and product cost.